Oracle 18c - Whoophing announcements by Larry Ellison

When there is an automated aircrafts..  When there is an automated cars like Tesla... Then, why cant we have an automated database ?  that too being an Oracle ?  

These questions from Larry Ellison - Chairman and CTO of  Oracle Corporation made him to declare a big announcement today - 2nd Oct, 2017 at Oracle Open World Conference held on San Francisco, USA. 

Yes, Oracle 18c is on the way very soon.   Here we will the snippets of Larry's big announcement today. 

Is it a war ?

Larry literally declares war against human work and also he targets his biggest counterpart Amazon in his announcements. 

Key Features :-

Solution for Security Threat :   “If you eliminate human labor, you eliminate human error. It’s embarrassing for me to admit it, Ellison said today. If their is no human intervention, we can avoid security threat from bad boys.

Automated Patch Update :-  Oracle 18c will immediately patch itself the moment a threat is detected, since it “does not need a human being to schedule downtime” for maintenance, Ellison highlighted this point very clearly. 

Nearly Zero downtime :-  18C needs less than 30 minutes a year of planned downtime. This is a big deal; no one else does it, Ellison targets Amazon here by declaring this is far better than Amazon.

•   Gurantees 99.995% of system availablity
•   Guaranteed 100x better availability than Amazon

Automated DBA :- The Oracle 18c does three major things automatically while running  a) Tuning   b)  Upgrade  and c) Patch Update. 

Cost Effective :- The Oracle 18c cuts major human labor cost, Maintenance cost and error fixing cost. This will be half the cost when compare to Amazon. Again Ellison digs Amazon here. 

Release Dates :-  Data warehouse :Autonomous databases for warehouses will be released by Dec 2017

OLTP :  The autonomous OLTP Oracle 18c will be released by June 2018. 

Cloud :  Autonomous No SQL Cloud Oracle 18c  will be released by CY 2018.

In Summary, Oracle eyes on 18c Release with the below amazing features. 

  a) Solution to human security threat

  b) Autonomous DBA

  c) Automated Patch, Upgrade and Tuning

  d) 99.995% availability

  e) Cost Effective

  f) Error less

  g) Faster Access

In our next blogs, we will talk about the below... 

• Is this is treat  or  threat for Oracle working professionals ?
• How to upgrade our skills to align with Oracle 18c ?
• How 18c will hit existing projects and its cost?
• And more..   Stay connected.

Regards,

Sathish Chandran